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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDems Respond To McConnell Taking Credit For Economic Growth: 'Hahahahahahahahahahaha'
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Dems Respond To McConnell Taking Credit For Economic Growth: 'Hahahahahahahahahahaha'
By Daniel Strauss
Published January 7, 2015, 12:05 PM EST 9636 views
The way Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) sees it, recent good news on the American economy is directly linked to the fact that there's a new Republican majority in Congress.
"After so many years of sluggish growth, we're finally starting to see some economic data that can provide a glimmer of hope; the uptick appears to coincide with the biggest political change of the Obama administration's long tenure in Washington: the expectation of a new Republican Congress," McConnell said on Wednesday. "So this is precisely the right time to advance a positive, pro-growth agenda."
The comment provoked snide chuckles from Democrats. The Democratic National Committee emailed out a statement with the subject line "DNC to McConnell: Hahahahahahahahahahaha."
Here's the statement from DNC Communications Director Mo Elleithee:
Hahahahahahahahahahaha. That Mitch McConnell is one funny guy. He likes to remind people all the time that hes not a scientist. Now we know hes not a mathematician or an economist either. The fact is, under President Obama weve had 57 straight months of private sector job growth leading to nearly 11 million jobs added. All Republicans have given us is a government shutdown that cost the economy $24 billion. I get why he wants to take credit for the economic recovery. But maybe he should first do something to help contribute to it.
Some Democrats lately have been eager to highlight that the unemployment rate has fallen below 6 percent. Obama himself highlighted some of the economic recovery at his end of year press conference in December (that is, before Republicans took control of the Senate). He said that "the steps that we took early on to rescue our economy and rebuild it on a new foundation helped make 2014 the strongest year for job growth since the 1990s."
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Dems Respond To McConnell Taking Credit For Economic Growth: 'Hahahahahahahahahahaha' (Original Post)
babylonsister
Jan 2015
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msongs
(67,405 posts)1. into the vacuum left by dems, why not take advantage? nt
calimary
(81,240 posts)2. God I HATE republi-CONS...
Every day I hate them just a tiny bit more.
Xipe Totec
(43,890 posts)3. McConnell is like the fly that sits on the ass of an ox taking credit for plowing the field nt
spanone
(135,831 posts)4. he failed to point out that the recovery is IN SPITE of those fuckers.